De Benedictis, Luca; Gallegati, Marco; Tamberi, Massimo - 2005
This paper investigates the link between overall specialization and growth, analyzing the shape of the relationship … between the median of the sectoral distribution of the Balassa Index, our summary measure of overall specialization, and the … level of per capita income. The median of the Balassa Index distribution has an inverse relation with overall specialization …